Truly looking forward to this event! Will be showcasing @astonunarchives.bsky.social while connecting with many interested in Black Country and much beyond!

Just out in paperback! global.oup.com/academic/pro... So happy to see it gaining new life!

Historians of emotions, you will be thrilled to see that Barbara Rosenwein is now on bluesky! Just rejoiced in clicking "follow" myself!

Honoured to receive the prestigious Waldo Gifford Leland Award from ‪@saa-official.bsky.social‬! t.co/DhF0eJfJ03 Best partner in crime, Valeria Vanesio, inspiring contributors and support ‪@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social‬. Glasses up for further conversations @astonunarchives.bsky.social and beyond!

This! Astonished by how many reasonable people, even environmentalist ones, are mechanically using AI as a toy without questioning its impact as they would with a flight or any other activity that negatively impacts the environment.

Just back from #SHAFR2025. As always, left so impressed and energized: on to turning that unwieldy manuscript into one of them volumes at the book exhibit! If only I could have ½ day every week of that magic SHAFR tonic!

Looking forward to it!

It's always a good day to revisit this one.

Have a look at our spiffed up webpage, complete with (rudimentary) inventory and intriguing "stories from the archives" by History students ‪@astonuniversity.bsky.social‬! www.aston.ac.uk/about/histor...

And that is why people should be taught since nursery school to defend the integrity of the processes through which documents are preserved and accessed. May this alert all (everywhere!) about the importance of education in what archives/archivists/historians are and do.

First was the fragment of a spine found somewhere... next thing you know, turns out we have the whole series of this journal in great condition!

Good, insightful blog by @davidevampa.bsky.social on the lessons we can learn about the expansion of Reform UK's success to Scotland from the territorial expansion of Italy's Lega (Nord), a party widely despised in the south transformed to one with a national populist platform and Italy-wide appeal.

This is absolutely terrible for researchers. And a sign of how fragile digital "preservation" is.

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HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”

Indeed. At stake, really, is the lot (together with basic respect for past, present, and future international students and people).

Absolutely loved doing this @railway200.bsky.social at @astonuniversity.bsky.social event with @railwayhistorian.bsky.social‬! Looking forward to more in this series to come!

Wonderful initiative to honor an outstanding historian, colleague, and friend who left us all too soon. Please help to spread the word!

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Call to all, esp. #Birmingham area: we have old SONY U-matic S SP video cassettes, which we believe may contain valuable material relating to the history of the university. Do you have, or do you know who might have, a machine that can play them?

Final deadline is tomorrow (April 1). Don't miss it!

Please welcome and follow the newly established European Chapter for the History of Emotions @echoes-she.bsky.social led by @boddice.bsky.social! A wonderful new home for all of us into #emotions.

Chuffed to report that @astonunarchives.bsky.social now have an ARCHON number and appear on Discovery! If you know nothing about #archives, this post might not move you right away; but if you do, especially in the UK, you know this is a wonderful milestone! People can now find us! Bottoms up!

Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!

There are still free spots, deadline extended until the end of the month! Take advantage of this #SHAFR2025!

Sending out another blast about this opportunity #SHAFR2025, open to people of all genders and tremendously useful! Please help to spread the word!

This! And having taught many older students in the US, I can attest to the fact that they make a wonderful addition to the classroom and to the institution!

Please welcome to Bluesky the Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social Follow, tag, do your magic!

Very sorry to hear about the passing of Professor Wilma Iggers, a wonderful model of strength, honesty, and wit in the face of adversity. Lucky to have met her, inspiring to at least try to follow her steps. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/wilm...

Sending out another blast about this opportunity #SHAFR2025, open to people of all genders and tremendously useful! Please help to spread the word!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for - subscribe now to Writing Wrongs, the podcast from AIFL. First episodes drop 7th March 2025! Listen to the trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... @timgrant123.bsky.social @drniccimacleod.bsky.social

Flagging #SHAFR2025 Second Book Workshop to take place the day before the conference begins in Arlington. I participated years ago and still go back to those notes! Now honored to lead the Women in SHAFR Committee organizing it. Consider applying! shafr.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...

So grateful to my History colleague Brian Sudlow and @astonpress.bsky.social for the opportunity to record this podcast on @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Archives and Emotions! Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3d...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

All interested in #archives, #museums, #manuscripts, #heritage #digital humanities, and of course #malta, please welcome and follow my dear friend and long-time collaborator @dkgullo.bsky.social. new to the social media thing, but a veteran in supporting great work in history, archives, culture.

For those who missed the launch of @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Archives and Emotions edited volume, here is a link (for a limited time): zoom.us/rec/share/-R...

The big day is here! Join in! Hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...

Cannot wait for this event tomorrow: hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...

Resolution: no room for early Jan blues. AHA @historians.org in NYC! Book on Archives and Emotions for the first time at book exhibit, discussion in panel 303 (Jan 6, 9:00-10:30am, Hilton, Clinton room), and good company to think through our troubled times. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archives-...

And here it is, out today in electronic format! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archives-... Wondrous cover is an oil painting by artist Nunzia Spadolino made especially for this volume. The title is Pagine di emozioni - Pages of Emotions

This is making the rounds again, and you know what? It’s probably the most accurate description of how it feels to be a historian.

Honoured to participate in this seminar on emotions history this Friday, streaming online 5:00-7:00pm UK time. Will be discussing my own journey trying to make sense of this field, hopefully providing some useful pointers for others! historicas.unam.mx/sites/defaul...

Call to all #Birmingham people/institutions: does anybody have/would know where to look for the 1897-1900 volume of these Birmingham Municipal Technical School Programmes? Please spread far and wide, it is the only one missing at the AstonUniversity Archives, soon to be digitised!

My two cents on one way to make SHAFR and academia more inclusive shafr.org/assets/docs/... Hoping many will feel represented by what I have written about class differences and dynamics.

everyone saying "you have to convince students of the value of the humanities/higher ed/etc." has not seen what i've been seeing. the students are not the ones who need convincing.

If you are in Birmingham (UK) on 28 September, 6:00-8:00 pm, join in for a free documentary, historical background, and lovely fusion food - from South Asia to Birmingham via Uganda! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-south...

Hello everyone! New on this platform. Looking forward to re-encountering old friends and making new ones. Especially interested in international history (19th and 20th C); archives; the history of emotions.